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The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things…
The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacify such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacifie such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benj. Alsop, 1679
Section 7 › Part 1: 1. Matters of Fact to be foreknown, to the true understanding of the Cause.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. THE root of the difference between the Old Nonconformists and the Conformists, was that one sort thought they should stick to the mere Scripture Rule and simplicity, and go far from all additions which were found invented or abused by the Papists, in Doctrine, Worship and Government; and the other side thought that they should show more reverence to the customs of the ancient Church, and retain that which was not forbidden in the Scripture, which was introduced before the ripeness of the Papacy, or before the year 600 at least, and which was found lawful in the Roman Church, and common to them with the Greek, that we might not seem singular, odd and humorous, or to go further from the Papists than reason and necessity drave us. And the Laity seemed no where so sensible of the difference, as between the way of Ceremony, and unceremonious simplicity, and the way of our many short Liturgic Prayers and Offices, and the way of free-praying from the present sense and habits of the speaker; while pacificators thought both seasonably good.
1. THE root of the difference between the Old Nonconformists and the Conformists, was that one sort thought they should stick to the meer Scripture Rule and simplicity, and go far from all additions which were found invented or abused by the Papists, in Doctrine, Worship and Government; and the other side thought that they should shew more reverence to the customs of the ancient Church, and retain that which was not forbidden in the Scripture, which was introduced before the ripeness of the Papacy, or before the year 600 at least, and which was found lawful in the Roman Church, and common to them with the Greek, that we might not seem singular, odd and humorous, or to go further from the Papists than reason and necessity drave us. And the Laity seemed no where so sensible of the difference, as between the way of Ceremony, and unceremonious simplicity, and the way of our many short Liturgick Prayers and Offices, and the way of free-praying from the present sense and habits of the speaker; while pacificators thought both seasonably good.
2. The sad eruption of this difference among the Exiles at Frankford while Dr. Cox and Mr. Horn and their party, strove for the English Liturgy, and the other party strove against it for the freer way, is at large reported in a book called the troubles at Frankford.